St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-02

A Black Hills daily says the vote on division
would not draw out much of a poll in that
section ii ii were not for the local option
question. 1t is evidently not aware that to
secure a vote on the latter there must be q
petition signed by one-third of the voters of
the county, and that no Black Hills county is
likely to produce such petition, aud conse-
Queutly will not vote on the license question.
A young widow lately came from Missouri
10 Potter county entirely alone and in charge
of large number of horses and cattle and
farming implements and household goods.
She has secured land and will open up a arm,
and. no doubt, do well. Her chief annoyance
will be from persistent offers of matrimony-
but such plucky women don't need husbands,
and only rustlers have any show.
1t is an aggravation to Dakota people TO
see in every Minnesota paper Il copy or the
new laws of that state while in the territory
there is no opportunity to learn the provis-
ions of the various statutes fol- many months,
and then only b. purchasing an expensive
volume. 1t was great blunder on the part
OF the legislature not to have adopted tn e
Minnesota plan. The expense could easily
have been taken from some of the munificent
appropriations.
The Grand Forks Plaindealer Inst week con-
tanned ffty-siX mortgage sales and other
papers of that section nearly as many. Peo-
pie abroad are apt to draw mistaken and UNI
favorable i'm oreSSionS from such sales. They
are due to the fact that farmers, in their
eagerness tospread out, have borrowed money
far beyond the dictates of prudence. The
country is all right, but some OF its occupants
have been in too great haste to get rich.
Thos. bring, aged r. who has Il nice farm
of 100 acres in Grant county, advertiseS in
the local paper for Il wife-sayS he is as lively
as spring colt. and wants wife not over so
or under 80, and is confident he can make her
happy. 1t is said that quite number of APP
piicants are already plizzling the old man to
make Il selection. He thinks of asking them
to give the situation q trial.
Hon. j. j. Kleiner, the late Indiana con-
gresham, is now resident of Dakota and
has his family there. He finds most cordial
welcome. Aside from real estate interests,
he is largely interested in the Western Loan
" Trust company and the South Dakota Live
Stock association. He may yet represent
Dakota i'll congress.
The artesian well at St. Lawrence is one Of
the few not a success. 1t started in with
moderate flow, and was accepted from the
contractors, but the amount is not sufficient
10 be of much value. At Highmore the
authorities refused TO accept and pay for
their artesian well, and a lawsuit will result.
The city authorities at Brookings heard
reports that the saloons were selling liquor to
minors and others not entitled to bibulous
privileges, and all the saloonkeepers were
convened and advised in Il friendly way to
turn over Il new leaf in this matter. They
all pledged themselves to do SO.
A couple of boys at Miller recently took
their fathers horses and vehicle, with small
arsenal. and started for the frontier to be-
come cowboys, highwaymen, or something
dreadful they had read of in dime novels.
One night on the prairie chilled their en-
thusiasm. and they returned.
B. I. Weygint, who was the first man to es-
tabhsh cheese factory in the now great
cheese county of Oswego, New York, seven
1On he
ner county with quite colony of kindred,
and will go into the same business in Dakota
if there is encourag ement.
Robert Burns, of Sphinx county, couldn't
write a line of poetry, but he has just taken
out patent for q continuance that it is
Claimed will be more popular in Dakota than
any OF the productions Of his namesake. 1t
is ii continuance for burning straw for fuel,
and is said to be an entire success.
Rev. j. w. Bouce, Free Methodist
preacher, has been using the streets of
Armour for his pulpit, but not with results
worth initiating. He claims to have made it
a common practice in the states, but Dakota
takes its religion in a little more decorous
manner.
Three colonies of from ten to twenty fam
lies each, have reached Tower county the
past week-one from Lincoln and Galloway
counties, of Missouri, and two from Canada.
They are said to be but the prelude to heavy
migrauon.
Cornelius Wedell, of Turner county, was
killed by the cars Of the Milwaukee railroad
in October. 1855, and the administrator
brought suit for $4,000, but the jury have
just awarded $1,000 That seems to be the
full value of man in Dakota as well as the
states.
The citizens of Hot Springs gave DR.. Ste
wart, their representative, banquet and
grand reception on his return, especially in
view Of the passage of the $4,000 appropria-
ton for the soldiers home there, but did not
invite Gov. Church, or approve his veto.
The editor of the Harrison Globe is not very
old, but he claims to have tool chest brought
over in the Mayf1ower in 1920, and which had
then been in the family several generations.
The number of ancient relics that turn up in
Dakota is surprising.
Quite number of parties from South Da-
kota went to Washington territory some time
since, and send back word 10 their friends not
to come there unless they have more money
than they need. They say Dakota is the best
country, especially for men of small means
Col. East, register of the land Office at
Yankton, last week netted So, 900 in a piece of
property that he had held but ten days. That
is better than holding a land Office, and indi-
Gates that Yankton is going ahead.
The division OF the $500 acres of the Dali
rymple farm near Casselton, between Dali
r.mple and Cheney, it is hoped in that section
OF all the bonanza farms. The small farms
build up the country much better.
Mrs. Slack. the widow who married Snow
the solicitor for musical instruments and went
TO Iowa with him, has returned TO Canton.
having discovered that she was his fourth liv-
ing, undivorsed wife. Snow is SAID to be now
living with No. 8.
at Tyndall, iniBon Homme county, to bore
for an arteSian well. The great need of the
town is water, and if this is secured suffi-
cienty a creamery and other Institutions will
follow.
During the past three weeks $50 acres of
land at Yankton have been bought by outside
parties TO lay Off in lots for sale, and several
hundred more acres are being negotiated for.
The boom is believed to be rising there
1t is figured up that Dakota has QUE half
more newspapers than all the other seven
territories combined. If the number was re-
duced one-half they would average better,
and be little loss to the country.
Ex-A uditor Caldwell disagrees with those
who assert that the late legislature was ex-
travagant in its appropriations. He saws
that, considering the size of the territory
they were extremely modest
Some OF the most expert guessers put the
immigration to Dakota in 1887 at "a. 600. and
suppose this means the occupancy of 5,OOO.-
600 more acres. At that rate there will soon
be little land not taken up.
Brookings has five and a half miles of
Sidewalk and another mile has been ordered
1t is claimed that no other town of a,O0O peo-
pie in Dakota can equal 1t in such improve
ment.
The sheriff of Edmunds county has been
travelling in the eastern section of late look
ing for couple of fellows who have been
doing" the people with furniture varnish.
The militia company at Watertown pro-
poses to invest some $4,000 in an armory
building. Nearly ali the old companies are